Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Born 1 March 1878 and brought up in Y Wenallt, parish of Troed-yr-aur (Trefdreyr), Cardiganshire. His father Ivor Pryse Williams (1850 - 1920) was the son of the writer priest Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd '; 1821 - 1891) and his mother Elizabeth the daughter of a Baptist family of Bethel church, Dre-fach Felindre, whose two brothers, David Phillip Jones (1850 - 1884), Felin-gwm and Llanfynydd
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer , he was elected in 1945, with a slim majority, the Labour Member for Croydon South, defeating the Conservative Member, Sir Herbert Williams, in a straight fight. Rees-Williams was recruited by the government to assist in paving the way towards a solution of two problems in the Far East. The Japanese had occupied Sarawak, a British protectorate, ruled by the English family of Brookes. After the war
WILLIAMS, EDMUND (1717 - 1742), early hymnist of the Methodist revival He was a native of Cwmtillery, Monmouth, and one of the converts made by Howel Harris on his first preaching visit to Monmouthshire in March-April 1738. A churchman of good family and well-to-do, he was educated and devout, and under Harris's influence became a ' much respected exhorter among the Methodists.' He and Morgan John Lewis, his friend and fellow-convert, published a collection of Welsh
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor Born 14 November 1750 at Glanclwyd (between Denbigh and Bodfari) where his family had lived for 150 years before that; the son of Thomas and Anne Williams. His parents were members of the Church of England, and as he himself was intended for holy orders he was first sent to S. Asaph grammar school, and afterwards to Derwen, to be coached by the parish priest. He lost the desire to enter the
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary some of the money he could have received from his brothers, all of whom became enslavers in Jamaica. However, Iolo did receive money directly from his brothers during periods of financial difficulty, and eventually accepted an inheritance for himself and his family in 1815 from his brothers' Jamaican holdings (when enslaved workers were no longer part of the estate). Iolo therefore has a prominent
WILLIAMS, ELIEZER (1754 - 1820), cleric, author, and schoolmaster , and licensed to the curacy of Tre-lech; then he went as curate to Tetsworth, Oxfordshire. He took his B.A. in 1778, and was ordained priest in Christ Church, Oxford, 20 December He taught at Wallingford grammar school, Berks., and served as curate at Acton, near Wallingford; from 1780 to 1782 he served as chaplain on the Cambridge. He went as a tutor to the earl of Galloway, and was with the family
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner years. He was a determined negotiator who was successful in securing district-based wages and hours of work instead of the national wage agreement canvassed by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. He remained in active control of his family business, Thomas Williams and Sons (Llangennech), Ltd., until the mid-1940s and became a director of some large industrial and commercial concerns such as
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist Born 6 January 1719 at Abercrave, Brecknock - a brother to William Evans (1716 - 1770), Cwmllynfell. He came from a religious family. It is probable that he was at Joseph Simmons's school at Swansea or Neath. In the bitter controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism at Cwmllynfell he joined the party of Howel Harris and Daniel Rowland. He was a true revivalist both by nature and by conviction
WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge scholarships for students of the University of Wales. The family were zealous Independents and pillars of Park Church. George Clark Williams received his early education at Llanelli and Bishop's Stortford public school. He went to Aberystwyth College and in 1898 gained a B.A. degree of London University. After serving his articles he qualified as a solicitor, and in 1902 joined the partnership of Roderick
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian Glanmor Williams was born on 5 May 1920 at 3 Cross Francis St, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the only child of Daniel Williams (died 1957) and his wife Ceinwen (née Evans) who died in 1970. The paternal family's roots were in Breconshire, the maternal in Rhandir-mwyn, Carmarthenshire. The family were Welsh-speaking Baptists and members of Moriah chapel, Dowlais. His father was first a
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , but in 1855 moved to Talsarnau, where he married (producing a large family) and opened a shop. He was ordained in 1857. He is chiefly remembered for his dry wit. He also wrote entertainingly in the periodicals, and published three books: Cofiant y Parch. Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1873; Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog, 1875 (the story of an old elder); and Bwthyn fy Nhaid Oliver, 1880, 2nd ed

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